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as JBS halane said the world Shall
Perish not for a lack of Wonders but for
a lack of
Wonder everything around you is
incredible if you're willing to look at
it that way everything around you can be
taken for granted if that's your
perspective but it really is about the
frame that you choose to put around
things I mean simply being alive is
already insane the odds are so stacked
against you not only just being a human
but being a human at this moment in time
this moment in time where breakthroughs
and Technology are happening at at an
unprecedented rate where breakthroughs
in medical science are happening at an
unprecedented rate where our ability to
connect with people to empathize with
people all the way around the globe all
of the changes that have happened in
technology and Telecom and connectivity
Health
everything we're living in the most
miraculous time ever
but you have to look at it that way and
as Joseph Campbell said life is a
wonderful wonderful Opera except that it
hurts so the question is do you see it
as the beautiful opera or do you just
pay attention to the pain and at the end
of the day you're going to get what you
focus on they're both true this is both
the most amazing time that's ever
happened ever in recorded history and
yet real things that are terrifying are
also happening
but where you put your energy where you
put your attention where you put your
focus is going to determine what you see
and that is the most fascinating and the
most important thing you have to
understand about the way that your mind
works you get what you focus on if you
focus on the things that are bad they
will become real they will become
exaggerated they will begin to
monopolize your thoughts you'll see them
everywhere it's called the reticular
activating system your mind is literally
designed to pay attention to the things
that you notice once you notice a
certain car you see it everywhere once
you notice a certain dog you see it
everywhere once you hear a certain name
for the first time suddenly realize that
that name has been all around you this
entire time but now that you're focusing
on it now that you're looking for it it
is
everywhere so whatever you look for it's
going to be everywhere if you look for
the negative it'll be there but if you
look for the positive it will overwhelm
you
and as Joseph Campbell said people say
what we're all seeking is a meaning for
life but I don't think that's what we're
really seeking I think what we're
seeking is the experience of truly being
alive and that's it that's the juice
figuring out that thing that makes you
come alive it isn't keeping up with the
Joneses it isn't how much you're getting
paid it isn't anything other than for
you something very specific it would be
different for for everyone but for
you find that thing that makes you come
alive focus on it think about it put
your time and attention there shift away
from seeing the pain in the Opera and
instead seeing the wonderment in it all
seeing the glory that is just everything
around you the opportunities the fact
that you're alive once you can see that
those basic things that you take for
granted that you can breathe in through
the nose and out through the mouth all
of that stuff once you start seeing how
miraculous it really is once you start
seeing how we're connected to each other
once you understand that the name of the
game isn't wealth it isn't Fame it isn't
ambition or
success it's
neurochemistry it's feeling a certain
way it's finding fulfillment in your
life once you realize that you'll
understand this is a game of attention
and you entire irely control what you
focus on so choose very wisely my
friends because your life will literally
become the summation of the things that
you look at
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